"Lost in seeing" covers a thirty-year journey through the changes of the Italian scene.Mimmo Jodice, one of the greatest Italian photographers, offers unexpected visions and unseen things, famous places and territories of the imagination. He crossed Italy from the north to the south in his modern Grand Tour, drawing a comprehensive portrait of striking images. Jodice's magical ...(展开全部)

In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child’s years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found ‘her true calling.’ From the moment the ship docked in Le Havre in the fall of 1948 and Julia watched the well-muscled stevedores unloading the cargo to the first perfectly soigné meal that she and her husband, Paul, savored in Rouen en ro...(展开全部)

A panorama of a whole civilization, a world on the verge of cataclysm, unfolds in this magisterial work by the foremost historian of eighteenth-century France. Since Tocqueville's account of the Old Regime, historians have struggled to understand the social, cultural, and political intricacies of this efflorescence of French society before the Revolution. France in the E...(展开全部)

In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child’s years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found ‘her true calling.’ From the moment the ship docked in Le Havre in the fall of 1948 and Julia watched the well-muscled stevedores unloading the cargo to the first perfectly soigné meal that she and her husband, Paul, savored in Rouen en ro...(展开全部)

A panorama of a whole civilization, a world on the verge of cataclysm, unfolds in this magisterial work by the foremost historian of eighteenth-century France. Since Tocqueville's account of the Old Regime, historians have struggled to understand the social, cultural, and political intricacies of this efflorescence of French society before the Revolution. France in the E...(展开全部)

茱莉亚·查尔德，1912年出生在美国加州的帕萨迪纳。她毕业于史密斯女子学院，二战期间在美国战略服务处任职，并遇到了后来的先生保罗·查尔德。1948年，她随夫君移居法国，为法国精致的美食彻底折服，因此进入著名的蓝带烹饪学校学习厨艺。名厨就此诞生。 37岁才开始学习烹饪的茱莉亚踏入了法国美食这个精妙的天地，也踏入了她精彩纷呈的下半生。1961年，划时代的《掌握法国菜的烹饪艺术》在美国出版，顿时在全美掀起法式料理的热潮。这本厚达734页的洋洋巨著，以前所未见的、详尽而精确的写作风格迅速征服了读者，至今仍在不断再版。 1963年，茱莉亚开始主持名为“法国大厨”的电视烹饪节目，热情欢快的爽朗天性和独一无二的颤抖嗓音让她成为家喻户晓的名厨。1966年，她的头像登上《时代》杂志的封面。 四十年间，茱莉亚主持了数十档公共电视节目，撰写了大量烹饪著作。由于成就非凡，她...(展开全部)

Lost in the Funhouse is a collection of loosely connected short stories that was originally published by John Barth in 1968. These postmodern stories examine the art of fiction writing, among other things, and seem to undermine the conventional and predictable nature of fiction. In the fourteen stories, Barth presents a literary "funhouse," a dense maze that weaves in and out o...(展开全部)

This fascinating compilation of early Edinburgh photographs takes us on a tour of Scotland's historic capital city, but rather than picturing the historic scenes dating back to the 1850s in the tradit

Lost in the Funhouse is a collection of loosely connected short stories that was originally published by John Barth in 1968. These postmodern stories examine the art of fiction writing, among other things, and seem to undermine the conventional and predictable nature of fiction. In the fourteen stories, Barth presents a literary "funhouse," a dense maze that weaves in and out o...(展开全部)

This fascinating compilation of early Edinburgh photographs takes us on a tour of Scotland's historic capital city, but rather than picturing the historic scenes dating back to the 1850s in the tradit